It took them a while to decide on the right formula for a federal government. They tried a very weak confederacy and found that it was a recipie for a return to tyranny. It would be a shame if that lesson is forgotten in our zeal to roll back the monstrosity that the federal behemoth has become.
They wrote our Constitution. To say Washington, Jefferson, Adams, Franklin, and especially Madison et al didn't set up a government is revisionist history. 9